The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation

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Acknowledgement

Lectures previewing the ideas presented here were delivered to the Information School at the University of Washington, the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University. Thank you to the audiences at those lectures whose insightful questions and comments helped further refine my arguments.

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Funding

The research for this essay was supported by an award from the William T. Grant Foundation’s Scholars Program.

Notes on contributors

Thomas J Billard

Thomas J Billard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and, by courtesy, the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. They are the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2024), and editor (with Silvio Waisbord) of Public Scholarship in Communication Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2024).